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Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to Walter Kaiser, a gap exists in the academic preparation of ministers. It is the gap between the study of the biblical text (most frequently in the original languages) and the actual delivery of messages to God’s people. Very few centers of biblical and homiletical training have ever taken the time or effort to show the student how one moves from analyzing the text to constructing a...

must go!)? I don’t think it is possible. Some of these claims would still remain. Thus, while we sincerely laud and appreciate Childs’s new emphasis and find many helpful and hopeful signs in it, we believe that it has a serious flaw: the canon has usurped the place of the author in the exegetical procedure. There is one place where canonical concerns must be introduced, however. After we have finished our exegetical work of establishing what, indeed, the author of the paragraph or text under consideration
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